Game.



No. 682,388. Patented Sept. 10, l90l.

H. C. PIGUEBUN.

G A M E.

(Application filed May 14, 1901.)

(No Model.)

wmlsssis m any other equally distinctive colors.

HENRY O. PIGUERON,

PATENT rnicn.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAME.

sPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,388, datedSeptember 10,- 1901.

Application filed May 14, 1901.

To U whom it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, HENRY G. PIGUERON, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York,(and whose post-office address is 531 East One Hundred and Sixty firststreet, New York city,) have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Games, of which the following is a full and completespecification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates particularly to that class of games which areplayed by several players; and it has for its object to provide a simpleand easily comprehended game which shall possess points of novelty andhave amusing and entertaining qualities at least measurably difierentfrom the games hitherto played and which shall be capable of beingplayed by any'number of players below a certain number and in whichthere shall be considerable interest maintained from the beginning tothe end, but no chance for question as to the winning of the game or themode of operation thereof.

' With these and other objects in View the invention consists in thenovel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully describedand claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, forming part of this specification, I haveshown a plan view of a game-board embodying my invention, the movablepieces being represented thereon in perspective.

In the practice of my invention I construct a folding game-boardcomprising two rectangular leaves A, flexibly connected by a' suitablehinge A, and paste upon the said game-board five paper squares ordiamonds B, C, D, E, and F, which'are colored, respectively, red, blue,pink, yellow, and green, or These paper squares or diamonds are securedone at each corner of the board and the fifth in the center across thehinge thereof and are each divided by four vertical and four transverselines into twenty five sections 13, O, D, E, and F, having the contourof squares or diamonds. For the playing of the game I provide five corrspondingly-colored sets of pawns or pieces G there being twenty- SerialNo. 60,136. (No model.)

five of each set of these pawns. In the drawing I have shown one of eachcolor; but it will be understood that the others are identicaltherewith. I also provide two dice II and I, respectively. The die orcube H has five of its sides colored, corresponding to the colors of thefive squares and the five sets of pawns, and the sixth side or face isleft blank or colored white. The die I has five of its sides numberedfrom one to five, in orthodox manner, but its sixth side is left blank.In the drawing both of these dice are shown with theirblank facesuppermost. The word blank or any similar mark indicative of the samemeaning may be placed upon the blank sides. Each of the pawns or piecescorresponds in size to one of the sections B, O, D, E, and F, and as mygame-board, the five paper rectangles, the twenty-five sections of eachof the same, the various pawns, the dice, and even the generalarrangement of the paper rectangles upon the board, all simulate theform of a diamond, the game is known by the name of The Game of Diamondsor The Game of Five Diamonds.

In the operation of the device or the playing of the game the two diceHand I are placed together in an ordinary dice-cup,shaken around, andthrown by one of the players or by each of the players in turn or bysome outside party. They may also be thrown by the hand. Each playerselects a certain color of square and set of pawns, which latter heplaces in a pile near him. The dice H and I must of course fall with oneof their faces uppermost, and the color of the face of the die II andthe number upon the face of the die I both determine the player to moveand the number of moves he should make or the extent to which he shouldoperate his pawns or pieces. For example, when the red face of the dieII is uppermost and the uppermost face of the die I indicates three theplayer of red will put three of his pawns in any desired position uponthe red-paper rectangle,which is his field or ground. Next the bluecolor may come up on the die H and afive on the die I, which indicatesthat the player of the color blue may place five of his pawns or piecesupon his blue-paper rectangle. On the next move the blank space on thedie I may fall uppermost, and then whatever color the die H shows theplay is a blank and no pawns are moved by any of the parties.Considerable interest is, however, thereby added to the game. As, forexample,if the pink color comes up on the die II and a blank on the dieI the player having pink has the excitement of feeling that he mighthave won several pawns or movements of his pieces and knows thataccording to the law of chances his color will not come up the next timeor two,at least. If the die H .comes up with the blank space on top,then, regardless of the turn of the die I, none of the players scoreanything; but they have the added interest of feeling that the two orfour which the die may show would have belonged to some one,

and if the five turns up each player calcu-- lates how this would havehelped his chances if his color should have turned up on the die H. Thisis particularly exciting for children. If both blank spaces come up onthe dice H and I, of course nothing is counted for any one. The playerwho first succeeds in placing all of his pawns upon his square andcovering it up by them wins the game, and the play has much interest asfast as the various rectangles fill up and show how near each player isto winning, and when played by young persons the children get addedamusement by laying their pieces in different ways upon theirrectangles, so that the sections covered by them make fancy or irregularshapes.

I believe that those who are accustomed to play games of this characteror to provide them for others will at once appreciate the entertainingqualities of my newly-invented game of diamonds.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- A game of the class described comprisinga rectangular game-board, five rectangles of paper secured upon theboard at the corners thereof and in the center and each coloreddifferently and divided into a number of correspondingly-shapedrectangles or sections, the number of sections of all paperscorresponding and each paper being adapted to form a field or ground forone player; five sets of pawns or pieces, each set corresponding to thenumber of divisions of one paper rectangle and corresponding in color tothe respective rectangles of the game-board, each pawn or piece being ofthe same size and shape as the divisions of. the rectangles and beingadapted to exactlycover the said divisions and said rectangles when allplaced upon the latter.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have signed myname, in presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 10th day of May,1901.

HENRY O. PIGUERON.

Witnesses:

T. A. STEWART, L. R. BOYER.

